Asian Ameircan Pacific Islander, Election Survey

The 2008 National Asian American Survey - A Post-Election Report in New York City

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 a community briefing from the 2008 National Asian American Survey!

NEW YORK CITY-Data on Asian American political behavior and policy preferences will be released in New York City on July 22, 2009. The National Asian American Survey, conducted in the fall of 2008, will be presenting new findings that highlight the importance of Asian Americans to the political process and to policy debates. They will discuss voter mobilization and turnout, political participation beyond voting, and also present findings on:

Civic engagement;
interracial attitudes and coalition polictics;
discrimination and hate crimes; and
policy items like health care and immigration

DATE: Wednesday, July 22 , 2009

TIME: 5:00 - 7:00 pm

LOCATION: Seyfarth Shaw LLP
620 Eighth Avenue, 32nd Floor, New York, NY 10018-1405
Appetizers and beverages will be provided.
RSVP TO: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHRXR2NaWmNJV1pGejU1LU95eTNvcmc6MA

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS:

Asian American Federation of NY
APIAVote
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Chhaya CDC
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
OCA New York Chapter
YKASEC - Empowering the Korean American Community
(list in formation)

The initial release in the fall of 2008 showed a majority of the Asian American eligible voters still undecided about their presidential pick. NAAS researchers documented the population's presidential preferences and the differences of opinion among its specific groups. The data also revealed the pivotal role Asian Americans could play in U.S. presidential races, given their significant presence in battleground states and swing states, and indications that, with a notable percentage of that population undecided, their vote was up for grabs.

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Executive Summary: 2008 National Asian American Survey


The 2008 NAAS is a groundbreaking study of the contours and contexts of Asian American civic and political engagement. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Russell Sage Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Eagleton Institute of Politics, the centerpiece of this study is a national, multiethnic, multi-lingual, multi-site survey of 5,159 Asians in United States. This undertaking brings together a team of four investigators - Jane Junn (Rutgers University), S. Karthick Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside), Janelle Wong (University of Southern California), and Taeku Lee (University of California, Berkeley) - who are leading political scientists researching the politics of immigration, race and ethnicity, Asian American politics, and political behavior in the United States more generally.

The survey will showcase the most comprehensive data yet available on the civic and political participation of Asians Americans. It will shed important new light on questions such as: When and why do Asian Americans become politically active? Which issues and contexts define Asian Americans into a coherent and potentially mobilizable political group? How are Asian Americans likely to vote in the coming November elections?

The survey combines innovations in sample design and survey methodology that include:

Comparing multiple measures of political engagement: from citizenship, registration, voting and campaign donations to non-electoral measures of engagement, such as protesting, religiosity, and organizational membership.
Integrating individual-level survey responses with contextual-level (zip code, county, state) data on demographic, economic, organizational, and political factors of interest.
Sampling a large enough number of Asian Americans to analyze:

six ethnic groups of interest - Asian Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese.
eight languages - Cantonese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and English.
Asians in traditional immigrant "gateways" as well as those in "new destinations" like Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Charlotte, and Dallas-Fort Worth.

Interviews were conducted during August, September, and early October 2008.

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